New cancer gene found

Researchers at the OU Cancer Institute have identified a new gene that causes cancer. The ground-breaking research appears in Nature`s cancer journal Oncogene.

How Cells Communicate To Activate The Cell Division Machinery

A study performed on the fruit fly unveils how distinct signaling pathways operate between neighboring cells in order to activate the cell proliferation machinery that results in the organized growth...

Fishermen suspected after 6 sea lions are killed in Oregon

(AP) -- There's "protected" on paper and there's "protected" on the river. Under a 1972 federal law, certain species of sea lion cannot be harmed. But the Columbia River...

Saving frogs before it's too late

With nearly one-third of amphibian species threatened with extinction worldwide, fueled in part by the widespread emergence of the deadly chytrid fungus, effective conservation efforts could not be more urgent....

Ecologists tease out private lives of plants and their pollinators

The quality of pollen a plant produces is closely tied to its sexual habits, ecologists have discovered. As well as helping explain the evolution of such intimate relationships between plants...

Genome Sequence Of Fungus Reveals Unsuspected Ability To Use Complex Carbon Sources

The model fungus Podospora anserina has undergone substantial evolution since its separation from Neurospora crassa, as revealed from the Podospora draft genome sequence published in Genome Biology. The study also...

Electric Signals Could Ward Off Sharks

Scientists hope to reduce shark bycatch by repelling sharks with electric fields.

Fungi to fight 'toxic war zones'

Scientists at a Scottish university show how fungi could be used to clean up areas that have been contaminated by uranium-armoured shells.

Study: Insects first to feel warming

WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- Tropical insects will likely be the first types of animals to suffer extinction because of rising global temperatures, U.S. researchers say.

Geneticist Guiseppe Attardi dead at 84

PASADENA, Calif., May 5 (UPI) -- Giuseppe Attardi, a pioneering geneticist who identified all the genes of the DNA in mitochondria, died April 5 at his home in...

Spiraling Nanotrees Offer New Twist On Growth Of Nanowires

When a chemistry professor and his graduate student accidentally made some nanowire pine tree shapes one day -- complete with tall trunks and branches that tapered in length as they...

Fungus Could Be a Fix for Uranium Pollution

Common soil organism holds the metal in place, keeping it from spreading

WTO gives Japan until September to change chip import rules

(AP) -- The World Trade Organization is giving Japan until Sept. 1 to change its punitive charges on imports of South Korean computer memory chips.

The Pregnant Male

The seahorse is a strange fish. Many of the traits it possesses have evolved in a direction unlike any other family of animals underwater—its bent S-shape; its head at a...

Video: Bear Bones Approach to Osteoporosis

The bear fact is that hibernating ursines don't lose bone mass even though they're inactive for months. Could human bones be taught this trick?

Leptospirosis bacterium survival studied

PARIS, May 5 (UPI) -- French scientists say they have discovered how the pathogen that causes leptospirosis survives in the environment.

Are There Missing Pieces to the Human Genome Project? [News]

If you ask the scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) when the Human Genome Project wrapped up, they'll tell you it was finished in 2003. However, a...

Still Seeking a Cause of Colony Collapse Disorder

Through the winter of 2007-08, beekeepers reported a total loss of about 36.1 percent of their honey bee colonies, up about 13.5 percent from the previous winter. Losses attributed to...

Mechanical Creatures Try to Mingle

To learn more about how animals communicate, researchers are developing robotic copies capable of signaling real-world creatures, then analyzing how the non-battery-powered respond. Most recently, Hampshire College researcher Sarah Partan,...

Can Birds Tell If We Look Them in the Eye?

Study shows that birds do respond to a human's gaze.

Land lines better than VoIP for 911: expert

In the wake of an 18-month-old's death last week in Calgary, a University of Calgary technology expert says land line telephones are safer than internet services for 911 calls.

Experts scramble to save Panama’s golden frog

Corn bread-muffin mix is recalled

WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of Little Bay- and GFCFDiet-brand bags of corn bread-muffin mix due to a labeling...

ACE2 protein better understood

A study has discovered the role of the ACE2 protein in linking nutrition and blood pressure regulation, findings that could help explain the rare Hartnup disorder.

DNA Jigsaw Puzzle

A new mathematical and statistical method allows the virus population in a diseased organism to be determined quickly and economically. Using this method, medicines and vaccines against diseases caused by...

Not All Cells Respond The Same Way To Insulin

One of the characteristic features of the disease type 2 diabetes is the inability of cells of the body to respond to the hormone insulin, something known as insulin resistance....

Nitric Oxide Regulates Plants As Well As People

Nitric oxide has emerged as an important signaling molecule in plants as in mammals, including people. In studies of a tropical medicinal herb as a model plant, researchers have found...

Rare red ibis breed in wild in China

ZHUJIAZUI, China, May 4 (UPI) -- Three red ibis chicks have been born in the wild in China to artificially bred parents, marking a key point in the...